The Wolf - A Bodleian Ballad Halloween - #9

This ballad seems to be about burglars, but is halloweeny enough for me:
http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/view/edition/7367

The song is by William Shield (1748-1829) and was part of the opera 'The Castle of Andalusia", version published in 1807:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/36651/36651-h/36651-h.htm

There was an earlier, 1783 publication of the opera, however, the end to ACT III doesn't include the song:
https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-castle-of-andalusia-_okeeffe-john_1783

It does appear in the 1798 collected works of John O'Keefe Volume 1:
https://archive.org/details/dramaticworksofj01okeeiala

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https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/album/a-broadside-ballad-halloween